Recently I participated in another Craftster swap, the journal prompts swap. A journal prompt is an idea that you can use in journalling, whether you work in an art journal, a junk journal or a writing journal. For this swap each participant needed to alter two playing cards, fronts and backs, with a journalling prompt on the front and a completed prompt on the back.

Do you have a party coming up? Looking for a present that's useful and easy to make? Then why don't you make a needlebook? A needlebook is a little booklet that holds needles. They are fun and versatile gifts. Not only are they relatively simple and easy to make, you can adapt them to your own taste. Often needlebooks are made out of fabric, but today we are going to create one out of paper!

My tutorial was inspired by this tutorial by Calli (Make it Do). Many thanks to my sister Suzanne, who took pictures.

---I already showed you some of my Halloween themed ATC's in one of my last posts. Even though it is only May and summer hasn't even properly started yet, here's some more. I LOVE Halloween, I wish it could last longer... :)

The box I wrote about earlier is finished! I am very happy with the end result. Here's a short summary about the process. I started with a cardboard box, and painted it with black acrylic paint. The next step was to measure all the sides and the top and bottom, so I could cut the different parts that were going to cover the box to size out of a piece of paper. I purposely cut the tinfoil pieces a tad bigger than the paper pieces, so that the edges could be folded over. This gave the pieces a nice finish and prevented the tinfoil from fraying. After that I embossed and painted the pieces and adhered them to the box.